![]() ![]() Markham’s father raised and trained horses for the Nairobi racetracks. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen.” ![]() ![]() “As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. The prose descriptions of both the landscape and the lifestyle evoked the following reaction in Ernest Hemmingway: ![]() While West with the Night was published in 1945, it is still today considered one of the best descriptions of life in Kenya in the early 20 th century. West with the Night, by Beryl Markham, relates this fascinating woman’s life, from her childhood on a farm in Njoro, Kenya, to her return to Africa following her historic flight. Markham achieved fame also as the first female commercial pilot, flying trade and communication routes in eastern Africa. For my first #TBT Book Review, I celebrate Women’s History Month with a review of West with the Night, by Beryl Markham, the first female commercial pilot.Īn early pioneer in aviation, Beryl Markham (1902-1986) is best known as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from London to Nova Scotia, the reverse of the trip Amelia Earhart had made four years earlier. Now that my old book review site is gone forever, I will occasionally post old book reviews here, to give them new life. ![]()
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